About Me
Renee LaGue- Owner & Landscape Designer
I've loved the outdoors, art, and constructing things ever since I was a young kid camping with my family and building stick huts in the snow. I double majored in environmental studies and creative writing at Oberlin College, and during the summers I managed crews of teenagers doing trail work in the mountains. We removed invasive plants and built stone stairs and stepping stones. I then apprenticed on sustainable farms and maintained elaborate gardens as a fine gardener.
Not content to be only a builder, I attended the Conway School of Landscape Design and received a M.A in ecological landscape design and planning in their collaborative, hands-on program. Afterwards, I provided outreach and community assistance with the National Park Service before going back to the University of Maryland to get more technical and design experience. Since graduating with a Master's of Landscape Architecture, I've worked as an ecological designer in California, at a green stormwater nonprofit in Maryland, and as a residential designer in and around Washington, D.C. I am also an ISA-certified arborist.
